Politicak risk must-reads

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Eurasia Group’s weekly selection of essential reading for the political-risk junkie — presented in no particular order. As always, feel free to give us your feedback or selections by tweeting at us via @EurasiaGroup or @ianbremmer.

With China currently producing 90 percent of the world’s rare earth supplies, Russia has announced its desire to get involved too. After all, Russia’s rare earths consumption is expected to quadruple by 2020.

Ethnic tensions in Myanmar run deep—but there hasn’t been an ethnic census in Myanmar since 1931 when the country was still under British rule. Can a government in the midst of a political opening secure peace between various ethnic groups?

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Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Bremmer created Wall Street's first global political risk index, and has authored several books, including the national bestseller, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?, which details the new global phenomenon of state capitalism and its geopolitical implications. He has a PhD in political science from Stanford University (1994), and was the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution.